Mass killer Anders Breivik sentencing - live text coverageRAPSI hosted a live text coverage of the verdict handed down Friday against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. The 33-year-old Norwegian has admitted to having killed 77 people by way of twin attacks carried out in Oslo and on nearby Utoya Island on July 22, 2011.11:30 24.08.2012
Profile: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik caseWhile Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to having killed eight people in an Oslo bombing, and having gunned down another 69 at a nearby youth summer camp in 2011, he has refrained from admitting guilt for the crimes that he has been charged with in this connection.15:00 23.08.2012
Assange's US extradition fictionAs Assange addressed a cheering crowd of devotees surrounding Ecuador’s London embassy Sunday, he devoted much of his first public appearance in the two months that have passed since he sought refuge there to lambasting the US “witch hunt” against WikiLeaks.10:52 21.08.2012
Profile: the Pussy Riot caseAccording to advocacy website freepussyriot.org, Pussy Riot is a punk rock collective that formed in October 2011 with the aim of protesting policies unfavorable to such human rights principles as gender equality, democracy, and freedom of expression.15:20 20.08.2012
Profile: the case against Mixed Martial Arts champ Rasul MirzayevUndefeated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) featherweight champion Rasul “Black Tiger” Mirzayev stands accused of having negligently caused the death of 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov after inflicting grave injuries in a street brawl near Moscow's Garazh night club on August 15, 2011. Mirzayev, a 26-year-old Dagestan native, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.13:05 14.08.2012
Russia imposes sanctions against members of U.S. President’s familyRussia has once more extended its retaliatory restriction list adding 25 Americans to it, including members of the family of the U.S. President Joe Biden.12:24 28.06.2022
Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advancesA plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.13:26 28.06.2022
President Putin signs law providing for legalization of parallel imports of goodsPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill providing for the legalization of parallel imports of goods into law.17:56 28.06.2022